St. George Killing the Dragon Painting

A Mexico- and UK-based Ukrainian artist and art researcher. She works with the topics of the limits of art, ideological space, violence, and resistance. Sveta is currently finishing her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She completed an MA in Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and an MA in History of Art at the Courtauld. She works in the artistic media of digital graphics, painting, installation, and performance art. In 2017, her project of large-scale digital murals “The Morphology of War” was presented at the Museo Erasto Cortes in Puebla, Mexico, (February-June 2017) and at the National Centre of Arts in Mexico City (May 2017). In August-September 2017, this project travelled to the 5th International Biennale of Odessa in Ukraine. Sveta has presented her work in Mexico, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In 2014, Sveta has received the second place in the National Tour Art award organized by the Glyndebourne Festival in the UK, and she has participated in the exhibition of finalists in the famous Glyndebourne Opera House. In 2012, she worked on a solo performance project “Personal Studio” during the residency programme “Mecklenburg Inspires” in Germany. Her latest participation was in a group exhibition “Art/Work: 55 Ukrainian and Polish artists” that was organized by Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv and City Gallery in Wroclaw, Poland in August-October 2017.